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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Johanne Dion
Swine Flu: Exactly Who Are We Protecting?
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September 14, 2009: The swine flu is being covered by the media with the emphasis on vaccinations, washing hands and sneezing inside our elbows. But is the information the public needs and has a right to being made available? Or is the coverage... read more >

Re "Swine Flu: Exactly Who Are We Protecting?" (September 16, 2009): CAFO: concentrated animal feeding operation. I suggest reading Wikipedia about factory farming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming Read More >
Possible swine flu pandemic was feared by many, years ago...
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April 25, 2009: In June 2002, the Coalition Citoyenne Santé & Environnement was founded by citizens who were objecting to pig CAFOs in the province of Quebec. There were many reasons to not want industrialised pig farms, the same as in... read more >
Factory Farms and the TVA Spill: How Environmental Disasters Affect Our Health
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March 3, 2009: I've been reading the blog of the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivor Network about the symptoms afflicting the population around the Kingston coal plant disaster. It reminded me about the health problems I had while desperately... read more >
The Factory Farm and Water Pollution
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February 21, 2009: In a factory farm, the animals live on a perforated floor over a concrete slab. Especially for the wellbeing of pigs during hot weather, the buildings and pigs are watered down to bring down body temperature, and also to... read more >
The Factory Farm and Air Pollution
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February 19, 2009: In my previous entry, "The Small Town and the Factory Farm", I wrote about how factory farms are forced upon a community in a very undemocratic process. Political, corporate and financial priorities tend to push... read more >
The Small Town and the Factory Farm
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February 12, 2009: I was asked to tell the story of a pig farm, a CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) that is, in my little town of less than 5,500 citizens, called Richelieu. My town is on the Richelieu River, outlet of Lake... read more >
Johanne Dion
Living by the Richelieu River since I was born, my environment is always a priority in my life. I grow my own organic berries and vegetables and am a member (with my spouse) of a local farmers' market to do most of my other groceries. I also see that my garden is creature... More